Amérindienne Dorothée^[1]

Abt 1639 - 1661  (22 years)

• Name	Amérindienne Dorothée
  Birth	Abt 1639	North America   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	13 Apr 1661	Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Canada, Nouvelle-France   [1]
  Notes	[[Category:First Peoples Canada Project, Needs LNAB]] [[Category:Québec, Canada, Nouvelle-France]] == Biographie == {{First Peoples Canada Sticker|nation=First Nations}} Dorothée ...... La Sauvagesse 1 ( - 1661) Femme Amérindienne dont le nom de famille à la naissance est inconnu. Sa nation d'origine est inconnue, certains la disent Innu, sans preuve. Date de naissance estimée. '''Mariage''' François Peltier épouse l'amérindienne Dorothée à Tadoussac en avril 1660 ''sans publication ni avis à quiconque, ce qui fit fit beaucoup de bruit'' (selon Jetté citant le Journal des Jésuites). Aucun enfant du mariage.[https://www.genealogiequebec.com/membership/voir.aspx?id=H%3a%2fCollections+diverses%2f19+-+Dictionnaire+Jett%c3%a9%2fDictionnaire+g%c3%a9n%c3%a9alogique+des+familles+du+Qu%c3%a9bec%2fP%2fPe/Le%20Dictionnaire%20Jett%C3%A9%20Page%200888.jpg Dictionnaire généalogique des familles du Québec des origines à 1730, René Jetté, avec la collaboration du PRDH, 1983, Presses de l'Université de Montréal, pg 888 (Pelletier) (membership IGD)] Ce fut le Père Charles Albanel qui officia.[http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_45.html Moses Creighton: Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents]Source: [[#S2]] PRDH: Couple1346 '''Décès''' ''L'an 1661 le 13 avril a été enterrée dans la cave soubs l'hospital Dorothée __ sauvagesse femme de François Peltier décédée à l'hospital après avoir receu tous les sacrements de l'Église.'' (enregistré à Notre-Dame de Québec)[https://www.genealogiequebec.com/Membership/LAFRANCE/img/acte/68905 Sépulture-Funeral Dorothée image IGD][https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8993-F9S4-J?mode=g&i=225&wc=9RLX-4WG%3A17585101%2C19508101%2C19508102&cc=1321742 Sépulture / burial Dorothée.....Sauvagesse FamilySearch] ON NE LUI CONNAIT PAS DE POSTÉRITÉ == Biography == Dorothée la Sauvagesse (the term sauvage and sauvagesse were used to qualify natives indiscriminately, and generally had no meaning other than that.) Born: Abt 1645, Native Amerindian (estimated, actual date of birth and age at death are unknown) Note: her actual nation/tribe is unknown. Dorothée married François Peltier, son of Nicolas Peltier and Jeanne de Voissy, in Apr 1660 in Tadoussac, Canada. (no known children) === Death ===Died and buried: 13 Apr 1661, Hôtel-Dieu de Québec. She was buried in the basement under the hospital where she died. === The Antaya Family Story by Yves Antaya & Louise Peletier === The name “Antaya” is associated uniquely with the descendants of François Pelletier and Marguerite Morisseau, who married on September 26, 1661, at the Mission Saint-Joseph in Sillery. François was the son of Nicolas Peltier and Jeanne de Vousy, originally from the parish of Gallardon, today within the department of Eure-et-Loir in France. He was the first to bear this name, and his descendants are the only ones to bear it today. It is therefore a name that belongs solely to these sons and daughters of Québec. The origins of the name “Antaya” are unknown to us today; its original meaning was long ago lost. Moreover, because François Pelletier could neither write nor sign his name, no original spelling of this sobriquet exists. Nonetheless, genealogist Louise Pelletier, a descendant of ancestor Guillaume Pelletier living in Sorel, contends that “the veritable origins of the name Antaya are of Montagnais roots,” and that the name likely appeared for the first time in 1641 as “Antanyé” or “Antangé.” She cites as her source a map of Québec dating to 1641 that shows, she says, the “location of an Indian cabin close to the Canardière Brook at Notre-Dame des Anges.” Although the name written on the map is illegible in the copy, Mrs. Pelletier confirms that it is “Antanyé” or “Antangé,” and that it is “probably a Montagnais name.” There is however a genealogist who does not accept the assertions made by Louise Pelletier. Yves J. Antaya, originally from British Colombia, has translated her text under the title “The Antaya Family Story.” He holds that the name is likely not Montagnais (an Algonquian language) but rather Huron (an Iroquois language). In his translation, he indicates some typical Montagnais words, such as “Nikabau” and “Pachabanokoué,” stating that these words hardly resemble the name “Antaya.” In addition, he cites an old French-Huron dictionary, written by the Jesuits in the seventeenth century, in which appear “antaye” and “ataya,and “tobacco.” Indeed, the true meaning of “Antaya” remains a mystery. All the same, we can state confidently that the first time that the name “Antaya” appears in the archives of New France is in a Becquet notarial contract dated August 22, 1667: Marguerite Morisseau is identified as “the wife of François Pelletier dit Nontayé.” Moreover, a few months later, on October 4th, according to the deliberations of the Prévôté de Québec, Marguerite is simply “the wife of Antaya.” Later, in 1675, François and Marguerite purchased the Seigneury d’Orvilliers, which shortly thereafter became the Seigneury d’Antaya. Ultimately, it was François and Marguerite’s children who would bear the name “Antaya” and transmit it to their children, who would themselves eventually follow suit. Now, about a year before the first appearance of “Antaya,” namely in June 1666, François Pelletier was among the 300 French and Indians led by Captain Pierre de Saurel against the Iroquois who had killed and captured six or seven French soldiers. Did François perform some meritorious action during this campaign to earn him a nickname? Given that this was an expedition against the Iroquois, we might wonder which tribe of Indians was accompanying Captain de Saurel. At the time, the French maintained relations principally with Algonquian tribes, such as the Micmac, the Montagnais, the Algonquin, the Attikamek, the Nipissing, the Abenaki, the Ottawa and the Ojibway. Does the name “Antaya” therefore come from an Algonquian language? Or is it perhaps due to François’ 1660 marriage with Dorothée, the “sauvagesse” mentioned in the Jesuit Journal? Or is it linked to no specific event whatsoever? It is possible that it is a nickname given him by his friends and neighbors in Sillery, whether they be Indian or not; or perhaps by those with whom he traded elsewhere. François was after all an experienced “coureur de bois” and would have undoubtedly had contacts throughout Indian society at the time. For now, the matter of the origins of the name “Antaya” remains a mystery; perhaps one day a definitive response will be discovered. Bibliography Antaya, Yves J. The Antaya Family Story (mnc8130 originally shared this to Clairmont-Sieffert Family Tree) ---- ''The following was submitted by Benoît Shoja Pelletier, one of Fran Now for François Pelletier: Based on his given ages in 1662 and 1667 we place his date of birth about 1635. He crosses the Atlantic ocean when no more than an infant, grows up in Québec City and, at the age of about ten, moves to Sillery. Amerindians were surely not strangers to him in Québec and Sillery, so it should surprise no one that he marries a so-called "Sauvagesse." According to the Association des familles Pelletier, early in 1659, François accompanies his brother-in-law, Noël Jérémie dit Montagne, on a voyage to the vast "Domaine du Roy", a trade area encompassing the great Saguenay-Lac St-Jean area. We don't know exactly how long Francois stays there, or his motivation for going there in the first place. Jérémie was authorized to trade in the Domaine, but was François? Perhaps he was abusing his brother-in-law's position to trade illicitly with the Indians; perhaps he sought no more than adventure. We can only guess. Some time before the autumn of 1659, François has returned to Québec; the Journal des Jésuites says that on November 21, François accompanies the Jesuit Albanel to Tadoussac, stating that he is not at their expense, but is under their name. Here again we are unsure of François' motivations. Is he no more than a hired hand, or has he devoted himself to missionary work? Tadoussac is the site of a mission and a trading post, a fact further obscuring his motives. When the Journal mentions Albanel's return from Tadoussac the following April 24, however, Francois' reasons for returning to Tadoussac become a little clearer: the Journal indicates that Albanel has married François to a Christian Amerindienne, without publication of banns, or permission from his parents, the bishop, or the governor, noting that this has caused quite a controversy. At this point, François' reasons for travelling to the Domaine du Roy with Jérémie early in 1659 are no clearer than before, but we are in a better position to assume why he returned there later that same year with Albanel: for the affection of the "savagesse," whose Christian name we later learn is Dorothée. Letting our imaginations stray a little into the realm of possibility, we might humbly assume that there was too little time during his first expedition to marry her, and François returned to Quebec determined to revisit Tadoussac and make Dorothée his bride. This would explain their hasty marriage, as well as why they publish no banns and consult neither family members nor local officials. Albanel was undoubtedly sympathetic to François and Dorothée's situation, or else he certainly would not have taken upon himself to marry them without their having gone through the proper channels and necessary steps. In the end, if François and Dorothée do truly marry for love, their happiness is short-lived: she dies April 13, 1661, at Quebec's Hôtel-Dieu hospital, leaving no children. After Dorothée's death, François married Marguerite Madeleine Morisseau; they publish three banns in the parish of Sillery before their marriage, September 26, 1661. (In support of Benoît Shoja Pelletier's thesis, there was a large Montagnais village on the Saguenay River shore opposite and west of Tadoussac at the time of Samuel de Champlain's first visit to the region about a generation before her putative birth. Perhaps Dorothée came from this village. (Reference: David Fischer's excellent biography, Champlains Dream) Submitted by Paul Kenny (Kenny-764)) == Sources == * {{PRDH|Individu|60568|lang=fr}} Dorothée Sauvagesse *Family Search profile ID: L2XX-1JP *TREE "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2DJ-S8WX : 29 March 2018), null, 1661; Burial, Quebec, Capitale-Nationale Region, Quebec, Canada, Hotel-Dieu de Quebec - Crypte; citing record ID 170892953, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.*TREE 1635 Birth record, from nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec (Translation: Our Origins); https://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogie=Amerindienne_Dorothee&pid=26471*1660“; Pelletier’s Marriage to a Savage Woman” in The Jesuit Journal; https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/2022210?docpos=313*13 April 1661 Death - Dorothee (spouse of Francois Pelletier); Parish register, Notre-Dame-de-Quebec; image attached to profile; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8993-F9S4-J?i=225&wc=9RLX-4WG%3A17585101%2C19508101%2C19508102&cc=1321742*TREE April 1661, Find-a-Grave Memorial: 170892953 for Dorothée L'Autochtone ; Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/170892953/doroth%C3%A9e-l'autochtone: accessed September 10, 2024), memorial page for Dorothée L'Autochtone (unknown–Apr 1661), Find a Grave Memorial ID 170892953, citing Chapelle Hotel-Dieu de Quebec, Quebec, Capitale-Nationale Region, Quebec, Canada; Maintained by Benoit (contributor 49103048).*TREE 31 Dec 1956, Letter from Chester James Antieu a descendant in the Pelletier Family Lineage, pp 1-2 (attached to profile); https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/GMRZ-1CH 1 Gagné, Peter J., Before the King's Daughters: The Filles à Marier, 1634-1662 (Pawtucket, RI: Quintin Publications, 2002), page 233. 3 Gagné, Peter J., Before the King's Daughters: The Filles à Marier, 1634-1662 (Pawtucket, RI: Quintin Publications, 2002), page 232. 4 Ibid, pg 233. 1. Tanguay - Volume 1, p. 470 * [http://trees.ancestry.ca/tree/59777897/person/44053205956/media/1?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid%7cpgNum Ancestry] or* [http://trees.ancestry.ca/tree/59777897/person/44053205982/story/1?pg=32817&pgpl=pid Ancestry] * Note http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=drouinvitals&h=15052097&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt *[http://genealogiequebec.info/testphp/info.php?no=12309 Site de Fran *[http://genealogiequebec.info/testphp/info.php?no=1357 Généalogie Québec François Pelletier d'Antaya site de François Marchi] * Source: Author: Ancestry.com Title: Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.Original data - Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin.Original data: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montreal, Quebec,; * Source: Author: Ancestry.com Title: Quebec, Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian Families (Tanguay Collection), 1608-1890 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011; NOTETanguay, Cyprien, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes depuis la fondation de la colonie jusqu'à nos jours, Québec, Canada: Eusèbe Senécal, 1871-1890 * Dorothee - Amerindian : Source: Jette pg 887/888, :::Pg 27/29 One Hundred French Canadian families by Phillip J.Moore. * Quebec, Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian Families (Tanguay Collection), 1608-1890 :Name: Dorothée la Sauvagesse :Relationship to Head: Conjoint(e) (Spouse) :Spouse's Name: François Pelletier :Burial Date: 13 avr. 1661 (13 Apr 1661) :Burial Place: Québec (Quebec) (Quebec City) : Source Citation: Volume: Vol. 1 Sect. 2 : Hem-Zap; Page: 470.: Source Information: Ancestry.com. Quebec, "Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian Families (Tanguay Collection), 1608-1890 [database on-line]". Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011.: Original data: Tanguay, Cyprien. "Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes depuis la fondation de la colonie jusqu'à nos jours". Québec, Canada: Eusèbe Senécal, 1871-1890. Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Canada.[http://trees.ancestry.ca/pt/ViewRecordRedir.aspx?tid=59777897&pid=44053205982&dbid=2177&rpid=116534&nam=Dorothee%2bLa%2bSauvagesse%2bSp%2b7GGF&pg=32768&pgpl=pid] * Image of Parish Register of Notre-Dame de Quebec showing the entry of Dorothee's burial bottom right page. Dorothee Sauvagesse, famme de Francois Peltier[http://trees.ancestry.ca/tree/13978140/photo/_5bLBHpjtg9_P2Sgn6eITFbfKkJoHttEe4PlSc61zlerZ!p9qUkrbyoeELAGGiA0 Ancestry][http://mediasvc.ancestry.com/image/75b489ff-c10d-48b8-bb99-b9dc4c31f16b.jpg?Client=Trees&NamespaceID=1093&MaxSide=500 Ancestry] * Image of Record of Dictionnaire genealogique des familles canadiennes (Collection Tanguay), 1608 to 1890[http://trees.ancestry.ca/tree/59777897/person/44053205982/media/1?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid%7cpgNum Ancestry][http://trees.ancestry.ca/tree/13978140/photo/_5bLBHpjtg8DVkC_xRBlpOZONBtsahprFYE5StwZbokHqjKu4EtgrlFWh3qqYHRa/500 Ancestry][http://imageservice.ancestry.com/iexec/image.x?f=getthumb&dbid=2177&iid=32746_238410-00287&vx=0&vy=0&vw=0&vh=0&zp=0&tw=0&th=0&iw=0&ih=0&hl=0^ Ancestry] * PRDH Record Francois Pelletier m Dorothee Sauvage 1661 Mariage : Couple {{PRDH|Famille|94011|lang=fr}} : Marriage, undetermined location in Quebec (Journal des Jesuites) 1660-04-00http://trees.ancestry.ca/tree/17115476/photo/qHMkezR_sxx0zc4xCpYc_NnGO4Z!tfxfy!2OnDp3VCTjrAG8UMFKeCbRfX08CCZh/500 image * Tree http://www.ancestry.ca/search/db.aspx?dbid=2177&enc=1 ==Acknowledgements==* Amérindienne-5 was created by [[Liard-1|Danielle Liard]] through the import of Ged no 5 partiel Coutu.GED on Aug 15, 2014.* This person was created through the import of 124-DeCoursey.ged on 14 September 2010. * This person was created through the import of myfamily.ged on 23 March 2011.* WikiTree profile Antaya-22 created through the import of Mykin_2012-01-10.ged on Jan 11, 2012 by [[Quigley-140|Garnet Quigley]]. * WikiTree profile Sauvage-8 created through the import of Mykin_2012-01-10.ged on Jan 11, 2012 by [[Quigley-140|Garnet Quigley]]. * Amerindienne-4 was created by [[Van_Wasshnova-1 | Richard Van Wasshnova]] through the import of bidagan.ged on Apr 30, 2014.
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  Family	Pelletier François,   b. Abt 1635, Gallardon, (St-Pierre), Beauce, France d. Bef May 1688, Canada, Nouvelle-France (Age < 53 years)
  Marriage	Apr 1660	Tadoussac, Canada, Nouvelle-France   [1]
  Family ID	F26875	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

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  [S1749] Merged from Branchaud-718755_1 on 6-Jan-2026 at 21:00.